Definition for SCO'TIST

SCO'TIST, n. [from Duns Scotus, a Scotish cordelier.]

One of the followers of Scotus, a sect of school divines who maintained the immaculate conception of the Virgin, or that she was born without original sin; in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas.

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